Attitude Quote by Heath White

“Postmodernism involves the loss of any hope that some larger-than-human force—be it God or History or Progress or Science or Reason—is going to come…

— Heath White

The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence,…

— Umberto Eco

“In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with the metaphysical,…

— Terry Eagleton

“In postmodern discourse, truth is rejected explicitly and consistency can be a rare phenomenon. Consider the following pairs of claims. On the one hand,…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is. On the one hand, all…

— Anonymous

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the…

— Walter Darby Bannard

“Postmodernism’s collapse into indeterminacy is a significant weakness, yet its recognition of the implications of narratives, communities, embodiment, history, race, sex, and class make…

— David K. Naugle

Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange…

— Lyman Abbott

“That is my second hypothesis: Postmodernism is a response to the crisis of faith of the academic far Left. Its epistemology justifies the leap…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated…

— Martin Filler

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

— Jonathan Lethem

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

— David Roochnik